Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience

The paper replicates and expands on Wang et al. (2014) by examining hemispheric network specialization in individuals using higher resolution parcellation and identifying key contributing connections.

This study uses fMRI to examine dynamic brain lateralization during Chinese language processing and finds sex-related differences influenced by sex hormones.

This study examines the impact of including left-handed participants in fMRI memory studies and finds no significant group differences in activation or performance.

The paper investigates how brain connectivity relates to coherent information transmission in a cultural transmission task, finding lower inter-hemispheric connectivity correlates with higher transmission coherence.

This study compares how older musicians and non-musicians maintain speech perception in noise through functional lateralization preservation or compensation.

The paper shows motor asymmetry in larval teleosts is conserved across species and driven by thalamic neurons, with forms dependent on vision and independent of it.

The paper develops a brain coherence biomarker, DI, to distinguish males from females and patients from controls, showing its utility in phenotyping sex and mental illness.

This study uses VR and mobile EEG to show that fear in a virtual environment induces greater right-hemispheric lateralization compared to neutral conditions and IAPS images.

This study analyzes left-right volume differences in the human habenula across 52 datasets and finds significant heterogeneity due to MRI scanner and segmentation methods, with notable leftward asymmetry in specific conditions.

The paper investigates light-induced left-right asymmetries in the chick retina, finding transient gene expression changes and links to vascular and extracellular matrix pathways.

The paper maps dynamic brain lateralization patterns using resting-state fMRI data, revealing associations with cognitive functions and heritability.

The paper quantifies functional connectivity profile laterality in corticostriatal circuits, identifies laterality hotspots, and shows their predictive value for language task performance.

This study analyzes brain torque components in 24,112 individuals, finding sex/handedness differences, heritability up to 56%, and genome- and phenome-wide associations with various traits.

The paper analyzes structural brain asymmetry in young adults using the Human Connectome Project dataset, finding significant rightward asymmetry in multiple brain regions and a strong correlation between cortical surface area and gray matter volume asymmetry.

The paper uses computational modeling and empirical EEG data to show that hemispheric lateralization of brain function arises from dynamic interactions in the structural connectome.

This study examines how resection of white matter tracts in the left hemisphere affects hand selection in patients with brain tumors, finding that frontal and parietal resections alter hand preference without motor or cognitive deficits.

The paper uses volume-wise fMRI analysis to predict language lateralization with high accuracy by classifying each time point and aggregating results.

This paper improves fMRI language lateralization indices by incorporating homotopic mapping, aligning results more closely with clinical tests like WADA and fTCD.

This study identifies epigenetic differences in hemispheric asymmetry in healthy brains, Parkinson’s disease, and aging, showing increased asymmetry in PD and its association with disease progression.

The paper examines cerebral asymmetries using deformation-based methods, showing that tuning parameters improves the precision of asymmetry measurements in specific brain regions.

The paper examines age-related differences in hemispheric lateralization during spatial and verbal visual working memory tasks using behavioral and neural markers.

The paper shows that Retinoic Acid signaling, specifically through Rere, controls brain asymmetry and handedness in zebrafish and mouse.

This study identifies genome-wide significant genetic loci for handedness and links them to microtubule-related genes associated with brain lateralization and neurodevelopmental disorders.

The paper investigates how functional activation in Heschl’s gyrus and amygdala subdivisions differentiates between happy and sad acoustic stimuli, finding hemispheric lateralization patterns specific to sad emotions.